Chris Deaton

Resume

Web Developer

Self Employed
Denver, CO

July 2017 — Present

  • Develop new websites
  • Maintain and fix existing websites
  • Consult clients on tech decisions
  • Assist development teams with new work flows

Web Developer

GutCheck
Denver, CO

Feb 2016 — June 2017

  • Developed and maintained corporate website
  • Designed new page layouts
  • Developed custom Wordpress theme and plugins
  • Consulted marketing team on tech decisions
  • Migrated Hubspot website to Wordpress
  • Migrated Eloqua landing pages to Wordpress

UI Developer

CenturyLink
Denver, CO

April 2015 — Feb 2016

  • Worked on consolidation of My Account user portal
  • Updated existing UI to bring site up to speed on modern web standards
  • Developed dynamic HTML templates using Apache Velocity
  • Introduced my team to Bootstrap and provided best practices and learning resources
  • Implemented responsive layouts
  • Introduced modern dev work flow using gulp
  • Organized and estimated work using Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Maintained Java environment for local development using Eclipse and Apache Tomcat
  • Used Dimensions and SVN for team collaboration and versioning

Front End Developer

Atlas Advertising
Denver, CO

Jan 2014 — April 2015

  • Developed responsive web site templates for a .NET-based CMS (Kentico)
  • Developed page layouts using HTML and Bootstrap
  • Utilized a CSS preprocessor (Sass) for styling templates
  • Added user interactions and animations using jQuery and CSS3
  • Pulled in data from third party sources via API calls (e.g. Twitter and HubSpot)
  • Configured and used Node.js to run the Gulp task runner to process Sass into CSS
  • Used Yeoman to generate boilerplate templates via Node.js
  • Configured and updated client data for our GIS tool using JSON
  • Performed maintenance/support tasks for existing client sites
  • Estimated/scoped new work using Agile and Scrum methodologies

Client Liaison and Web Specialist

Digital Cheetah Solutions
Austin, TX

May 2012 — Jan 2014

  • Worked on consolidation of My Account user portal
  • Updated existing UI to bring site up to speed on modern web standards
  • Developed dynamic HTML templates using Apache Velocity
  • Wrote CSS to style elements and replace outdated, image-based UI
  • Utilized jQuery and JavaScript to deliver dynamic pages that interact with backend
  • Developed dynamic modal content using AJAX
  • Introduced my team to Bootstrap and provided best practices and learning resources
  • Implemented responsive layouts
  • Developed procedure to minimize, concatenate, and compress code and images
  • Organized and estimated work using Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Maintained Java environment for local development using Eclipse and Apache Tomcat
  • Used Dimensions and SVN for team collaboration and versioning

Skills

  • html
  • css
  • javascript
  • node
  • react
  • wordpress
  • mysql
  • php

Education

  • University of Colorado
  • Boulder, CO
  • May 2009
  • BA in Creative Writing
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